This place contains plenty information about the language, "its people"[Perl 6 People], implementations and [documentation].

Any language which passes the Perl 6 specification tests is an implementation of Perl 6. "Rakudo" is the name of one of the implementations. There are others.

* [Rakudo] Perl 6 is the Perl 6 implementation based on the [Parrot] VM. There are also Haskell and C implementations underway. Rakudo Perl 6 interoperates with other Parrot-based languages. See the "Official Parrot Wiki"<http://www.parrot.org/wiki/parrot> and "Parrot Home Page"<http://www.parrot.org/>. (These changed in fall, 2008, with the foundation of the Parrot Foundation.)
* Perl 6 will of course also support mainline Perl 5.10+ (and thus CPAN) interoperability. Here's the "Official Perl 5 Wiki"<http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5>.
* [Amazing Perl 6] snippets

* See "TPF receives large donation in support of Perl 6 development"<http://news.perlfoundation.org/2008/05/tpf_receives_large_donation_in.html>.
* This should see us through the first official early production-level release of [Rakudo] Perl 6.
* Please consider following Ian's example. There's still lots of additional valuable work to support.

^^^ Endless thanks to all of our wonderful supporters

* Bless all of our [Perl 6 Donors, Sponsors, and Supporters]. Please consider becoming one of them.
* Likewise for the great team of [Perl 6 People] (including many volunteers).

^^^ Perl 6 is the "Super-Perl" successor of Perl 5

* "We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing." — Larry Wall (2000).
* "The Perl 6 design process is about keeping what works in Perl 5, fixing what doesn't, and adding what's missing. That means there will be a few fundamental changes to the language, a large number of extensions to existing features, and a handful of completely new ideas. These modifications, enhancements, and innovations will work together to make the future Perl even more insanely great...." — Damian Conway (2003).
* "Perl 6 and Parrot have some extremely ambitious goals, and it’s my belief that the value and impact of our hard work and patience is going to play out for a very long time — that is, over at least many decades." — Patrick Michaud (2006).

^^^ First Look Shortcuts

*If you ...*

* want to see the newest developments, see [Perl 6 Articles and Presentations] (includes major blog posts).
* are curious, read "What is Perl 6?"<http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2006/01/12/what_is_perl_6.html>, [Learn About Perl 6], and [The Long Perl 6 Super-Feature List].
* want to learn about Perl 6 in general, explore the [Documentation].
* want to help Perl 6 be released faster, read about [Getting Involved], [Perl 6 Donations and Fundraising], and [Perl 6 Donors, Sponsors, and Supporters].
* want to talk to developers about Perl 6, read [Mail Lists, IRC, Archives] about IRC channel #perl6.
* want to read the latest Perl 6 news, see the {link: Perl 6 News} section below, or see the [Perl 6 RSS News Feeds and Headlines] for an auto-generated master list of current headlines from all of the major Perl 6 news feeds.
* are interested in Perl 6 books, products, services, jobs, etc., see [Perl 6 Books and Media] and the [Perl 6 Marketplace].

^^ Main Sections

Some links on this page occur in more than one location to make finding relevant things easier and more likely, although this requires some extra effort when updating this page. ("There's more than one way to find it.")

* For [Rakudo] Perl 6, see [rakudo feature status].
* [What can I do with Perl 6 today?] (Things that you can use or try out now. For example, [November], a wiki in Perl 6.)
* The "weekly Perl 6 design meeting" minutes show up on "Planet Parrot"<http://planet.parrotcode.org/> and at "Rakudo.org"<http://www.rakudo.org/> (see Rakudo.org headlines at the bottom of this page).
* [When will Perl 6 be released?] (Maybe something by this Christmas, if you and enough other people help out: see [Getting Involved], [Perl 6 Donations and Fundraising], [Perl 6 Donors, Sponsors, and Supporters].)
** [Development Dashboard] (Perl 6 project status and plans.)
** "STATUS file in languages/perl6"<http://svn.perl.org/parrot/trunk/languages/perl6/docs/STATUS> (Links to the Parrot svn.)
** [State of the Onion] (Larry Wall's yearly Perl status reports, with much humor-infested commentary on Perl 6 design philosophy, processes, and illuminating insights.)

* [About This Wiki] (License and other info.)
* [Quick Start] (How you can work on this Wiki.)
* "What Goes On This Wiki?"{link: [About This Website] What Goes On This Wiki?}
* "What Does Not Go On This Wiki?"{link: [About This Website] What Does Not Go On This Wiki?}
* [Content Wanted] (More, more, more, and still more.)
* [Discuss this website] (Posting to perl6.users is more likely to get useful attention.)

Gabor grant on integrating Padre and Parrot was cancelled. Gabor explains why in his blog. Note that this does not mean that this integration will not be done, or that TPF will not fund it. It just means that at this point Gabor does not have the time to deliver the grant on time.